Two weeks ago Scheels had shotgun demo days at my local sporting clays course. I was asking the Browning rep if he had any pull so we could get a 725 in 16. He said that nothing was in the works. However he told me that Runnings had a run of 200 525 fields in 16 gauge made for them. The Bismarck store had two last week with 28" barrels. They are asking $2000 for them. Somehow I left the store without one.

The wood finish on my (2007?) 525 is a oil finish. It was a kind of minimum finish from the factory. building it up with some stock oil did bring out a bit more grain, and a nicer more weather resistant finish.

I prefer the oil finish to the gloss acrylic type finish the majority of Citori guns get.